Example sentences of "not [verb] how [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've lied to me ? ’ she enquired , not seeing how she could be offended when she , either outright or by implication , had told some whoppers . |
| 2 | Seeing the Houses of Parliament , or even a debate in the Chamber , does not explain how we are governed . |
| 3 | A MAN whose driving manoeuvre ended in the deaths of his wife and mother-in-law could not explain how his car was hit by a truck . |
| 4 | He did not explain how he arrived at that figure , but it turns out — conveniently — to be £93 less than the £420 student loan that the Government are now making available . |
| 5 | I can not explain how it feels they may not be human , but they are flesh and blood . ’ |
| 6 | I could not explain how I felt other than very special . |
| 7 | Priority has been given to the juristic sources so far , since the concern here is with interpretation , and documents clearly do not attest how they were themselves interpreted . |
| 8 | She had not realised how she would never stop needing him but now she could see the future and it was dark . |
| 9 | When the other person is an unknown commodity and we can not predict how they will react , the greater is our requirement for the armour of indirectness . |
| 10 | But I had not forgotten how she had lied , and behaved so badly to me as well as to Edgar Linton , so I did not feel sorry for her , or encourage her to talk . |
| 11 | ‘ Although he feels his job is secure in spite of forthcoming local government reorganisation , he has not forgotten how his brief spell of unemployment affected him . |
| 12 | However , too often the student strains to see what is written because the teacher has not considered how she is using the board . |
| 13 | Chodorow and Bem , for example , note their middle-class biases , but do not explore how they affect their concepts of family socialization . |
| 14 | I do not know how they communicate with each other , but their organisation is formidable . |
| 15 | The use of index numbers and special ratios should always be undertaken with care since they may contain hidden dangers if one does not know how they are compiled and , very often , how they are ‘ corrected ’ for a variety of reasons . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , the writing remains as something separate from the experience and if teachers do not know how they can usefully respond to the writing as a text , then their part in helping children improve their writing is insignificant . |
| 17 | but in the country er public transport is essential but er access to a car is ess is really essential and for those who ca n't afford it I do not know how they survive in the country . |
| 18 | He did not know how they would have known his household routines . |
| 19 | To begin with , they left it too late — but , measuring the distance from Shiel Bridge way below and behind me , and judging the terrain , even though this modern road has been impressively built , I do not know how they might have bettered their arrangements . |
| 20 | We do not know how they were elected ; but in practice it can hardly have been more than a co-optation . |
| 21 | No , I am not astonished because , two years after announcing its local government plans , the Labour party still does not know how they would work . |
| 22 | I do not know how they are made up . |
| 23 | People sometimes say they bear no malice but I do not know how they can say that . |
| 24 | The lords in parliament , and in the courthouse and the castle , they do not know how we live — they know nothing about us , except that we will die for them , to protect their forts in India and in Scotland ’ — his voice sharpened suddenly , his arm swung round and pointed north and a gust of response rose out of the crowd — ‘ we have always been good at that , their demands can never be satisfied , regiments for the colonies , indentured servants and labourers for the plantations , they have scoured Scotland like a killing wind and the men have been whirled away in the blast of it . |
| 25 | I do not know how we can make that judgment until we have seen the texture of the decision that we are being asked to make . |
| 26 | If constitutional independence is what sovereignty is , I do not know how one can reduce it by pooling it . |
| 27 | He could not know how his words had affected her . |
| 28 | I do not know how you can hope to investigate crime effectively , without the assistance of the superior sex ! |
| 29 | Again my my personal view is that I think phasing has got a lot a lot going for it but I do not know how you could phase current commitments , because after all those those are on the table now . |
| 30 | He pointed at Mr Major and demanded : ‘ I do not know how you can sit there as Prime Minister of a Government that is capable of deceit on such a scale . |